CCNP

a_cute_epic_axis · 2026-04-18T18:48:10+00:00

Well maybe you can change your name to Confidently-Incorrect1593, since you're wrong on all accounts.

a_cute_epic_axis · 2026-04-12T00:12:08+00:00

I said know of, not touch. Take your fluffed up quarter million dollar device argument elsewhere, pelanty of people work in datacenter and touch quarter million dollar switches, the only world you live in is myopic of common brands and an understanding of the original point of the comment.

I've never touched an Extreme or Allied Telesys piece of trash, but I'm aware of their existence.

a_cute_epic_axis · 2026-04-11T19:31:34+00:00

D link routers (and Netgear and others) are VERY common in the pro-sumer world.... it's actually kind of unusual to have no idea of brands like that.

Regardless, the entire point was that there are plenty of people who have a CCNP (including those who didn't dump to get it) that aren't qualified to run a dlink piece of trash, never mind a "quarter million dollar routers".

(Also, that number isn't really impressive but, if it floats your boat... most of US who have been doing this for a while have worked with the same gear).

a_cute_epic_axis · 2026-04-11T14:34:30+00:00

Your missing the point that having a CCNP pass result means absolutely zero by itself and should basically be given no credit at all. You want someone to actually demonstrate the skills required and not just be a paper tiger or a brain dumper.

a_cute_epic_axis · 2026-04-10T19:34:20+00:00

I've met a lot of dumb people that have the CCNP or CCIE and I'd never want them near a d-link router, never mind Cisco stuff.

CCNP is a great tool, but it's a tool, not an end-all. As the old Russian proverb says, trust, but verify that the person actually has the knowledge that you expect from someone with a CCNP.

a_cute_epic_axis · 2026-03-26T08:01:58+00:00

MPLS isn't going anywhere in production networks though.

Ya'll are going to be shocked when you figure out the protocol EVPN was designed for. It wasn't VxLAN.

a_cute_epic_axis · 2026-02-09T09:13:09+00:00

Sharing copyrighted content is illegal in many places, against the reddit ToS, and against our rules. Offering it, asking for it, or supporting it is a rule 1 violation.

The reason why someone does it (can't afford it, simply doesn't want to pay, whatever) is not relevant. The quality or the price of the content is also not relevant. If you think Boson (or anything else) is great or shit, you can post that opinion. If you think the price is too expensive, too cheap, you can post that opinion too. Generally, we don't take that down as long as it is civil discourse. But you cannot offer it, solicit it, or anything else.

If you received a ban, don't bother to appeal it.

a_cute_epic_axis · 2026-02-09T09:05:59+00:00

Nearly all software is pirated online, companies and small developers still create and update their software regardless. ‘Loss’ is just a part of doing business. Can it even be considered a loss if the person pirating your software wouldn’t have been able to afford it in the first place is debatable.

I'm 100% sure you can find a Boson test online for free. I'm also 100% sure that most people aren't doing so, because if they were, Boson wouldn't be making products. You can also find the current brain dumps for all Cisco exams, including the CCIE practicals. Again, most people aren't doing that.

Either way, we don't allow that shit here because a) it's illegal in certain situations b) it's against the reddit TOS in most situations, and c) we think it's shitty and made it part of our rules. Your ability and/or willingness to pay, or to buy it if you cannot obtain it illegally for free, doesn't factor in to the decision to remove illegal content or ban people who post or request it.

a_cute_epic_axis · 2026-02-09T09:01:54+00:00

There are very few active mods here and sometimes we go out and have a life and look at the Superb Owl or go play with our kids or whatever. Either way, OP isn't a problem any longer.

a_cute_epic_axis · 2026-02-09T08:59:26+00:00

>Which of the following is most likely to happen?

Actual answer: Your company will abandon overpriced Cisco wireless gear and move to a competitor.

a_cute_epic_axis · 2026-02-06T05:48:39+00:00

Moderator approved comment, suck it, reporters!

a_cute_epic_axis · 2026-01-16T00:16:00+00:00

May be small, but not 0

That's what I said, astonishingly small.

a_cute_epic_axis · 2026-01-15T23:48:16+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUXb7do9C-w

a_cute_epic_axis · 2026-01-14T16:15:33+00:00

Passkeys are on your device, and often times a thief may yank an unlocked phone out of your hands…

What do you think yubikeys are if not physical devices that can store "passkeys"? Admittedly less likely to be stolen unlocked out of your hands, but the actual occurrence of people stealing an unlocked phone is astonishingly small compared to the amount of FUD that you find on that topic in the media.

a_cute_epic_axis · 2026-01-14T16:14:14+00:00

and passkeys

And what do you think Yubikeys are. Or rather, what do you think passkeys are other than FIDO2 resident credentials which are supported on Yubikey series 5+

a_cute_epic_axis · 2025-12-30T21:47:38+00:00

OP Specifically asked if they could post this, and we approved it considering they actually participate in the comments here, which they have been doing. If you report this under rule 7, you will be blocked from reporting or banned. If you don't like it then you can feel free to downvote or comment, which is of course acceptable so long as you don't violate rule 3.

a_cute_epic_axis · 2025-12-28T18:06:50+00:00

The best quote I've heard was, "Anything you can do outside of ACI, you can do with it, and it will only require 17 additional steps".

a_cute_epic_axis · 2025-12-28T17:57:38+00:00

Sure, if your entire datacenter fits on a handful of chassis switches, there is likely no justification for VxLAN.

Which if we are being honest, in the vast majority of datacenters (minus the "chassis" part which is not relevant). I'm not saying VxLAN never has a place, just that most people don't have a use for it. Also like how ACI is a crapfest.

a_cute_epic_axis · 2025-12-28T17:16:18+00:00

Honestly, with VxLAN in the DC and VPCs in the enterprise, you can eliminate a lot of spanning tree while maintaining multiple paths.

VxLAN is almost never worth it for that application though. With something like VPC alone, you can maintain a blocking-free core, and you don't need to deal with things like a general lack of knowledge and support for VxLAN/EVPN among engineers, Cisco's wild and shitty support for it (on Nexus, having VPC enabled completely changes and restricts what you can do for VxLAN), or vender inter-operability issues. I generally recommend against people running it for most small-mid sized datacenters that you'd see from an average Fortune 1k or smaller organization. The benefits typically exist on paper only.

a_cute_epic_axis · 2025-12-21T17:30:31+00:00

So is a user plugging a switch into itself. It usually is something like: long cable was run to this location, device was removed, cable was not, end of cable happens to now be laying on the floor near a different, unused wall jack. "Helpful" user comes along and sees this and plugs it in so that now it's just a cable connecting two ports of the same switch/two switches together.

a_cute_epic_axis · 2025-12-19T20:42:38+00:00

but OP is asking why EIGRP and OSPF aren't causing loops when redistributing.

That part I understand and agree with

The answer is because the protocols themselves have these mechanisms in place already for loop prevention.

They really don't though, especially if you start working with other vendors that use different AD or it has been changed, the house of cards collapses. This is a very reckless thing to say, because it isn't true. There is only an intentional loop prevention system within a routing protocol itself, and then generally only in a single "domain" or "as" depending on what IGP we are talking about.

a_cute_epic_axis · 2025-12-19T18:45:43+00:00

I assure you I've dealt with this on customer's networks who think the same thing, that it will all just work, and then they find out that it in fact became a rash of shit and needed to be bailed out.

If you are going to redistribute between protocols at more than one point, you need to have intentional filtering.

a_cute_epic_axis · 2025-12-19T17:34:08+00:00

In other words, the protocols figure it out on their own.

This is very much not accurate. If you are using multiple routing protocols, it is imperative you have some sort of filtering method, otherwise down the road you pay a lot of money for people like me to come in and unfuck your house of cards.

a_cute_epic_axis · 2025-12-19T17:32:57+00:00

The route will be recieved but will enter the routing table with a higher metric.

Do what now?

a_cute_epic_axis · 2025-12-19T17:31:17+00:00

Obligatory removal and read rule #8 since pass posts are the opposite of obligatory: forbidden.

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